Word: derek
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...weren’t always so gung-ho about the soul-selling world of investment banking, but this summer we decided to give it a whirl, and since then we have been completely converted. We applied for some hardcore finance jobs in Milwaukee, and with glowing recommendations from Derek C. Bok we were soon accepted into the Junior Teller program at Second National Community Bank. We began by scrapping everything we learned at Harvard. Ec 10 was full of hard data and macrovariables, but our new employee pamphlets told us that investment banking is really all about people...people investing...
...back to the numbers. Sure, they confirm what everyone involved in the debate is willing to concede, but it's the size of the disparity that's surprising. And since early applicants are more likely to be admitted, it does seem to support Harvard President Derek Bok's claim that early admissions "advantage the advantaged." Of course, there are several legitimate counterpoints to that, primary of which is Stanford Provost John Etchemendy's IRS analogy in his Times op-ed, which concludes: There is nothing about early admissions, in itself, that gives an advantage to those who apply early...
...expanding our library’s connectivity in the Library Digital Initiative, to increasing storage via the Harvard Depository, to spearheading Harvard’s partnership with Google to digitize thousands of public-domain books, Verba has proven to be a genuine freethinker and pioneer. According to Interim President Derek C. Bok, Verba is preparing to retire, saying he wants to spend more time doing research. He will step down at the end of the academic year, after being first appointed in 1984 and leading a distinguished career as HUL director of length only matched by Thaddeus W. Harris, Class...
...well as the Harvard graduate schools—were selected in May of this year. Together with the faculty advisory group, they will report to the Presidential Search Committee, comprised of members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers. The committee does not include Interim President Derek C. Bok. Murray describes the role of the committee as one of “synthesizing” input from students and passing on such information to the search committee. He said that student advisors have regular contact with members of the search committee, “sometimes directly and other...
Though Fitzsimmons and Interim President Derek C. Bok said that postponing the admissions date would relieve pressure placed on high school seniors, Fitzsimmons and Scalise said that for athletes, the process works in reverse and likely letters similarly alleviate that pressure...